On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech discuss the limiting of access to hospitals and doctors under Obamacare plans in New Hampshire and California, the healthcare impacts for patients, and why the government’s inclusion of “social and behavioral” data is dangerous to your privacy.

The conventional wisdom during the health care rationing fight was that the Democrats wanted to pass their so-called “reform” legislation as quickly as possible so it could be swept under the rug and out of the eyes of the electorate, since they knew the American people didn’t like it (oh, but we’d learn to like it later, once we found out what was in it). | Read More »

The conventional wisdom during the health care rationing fight was that the Democrats wanted to pass their so-called “reform” legislation as quickly as possible so it could be swept under the rug and out of the eyes of the electorate, since they knew the American people didn’t like it (oh, but we’d learn to like it later, once we found out what was in it). | Read More »

The NYT reports this morning that Barack Obama, like many presidents before him, is now seeking line-item veto authority. President Obama, in his latest effort to signal fiscal responsibility against the rising debt, plans this month to ask Congress to give him and future presidents greater power to try to delete individual items from spending bills. In doing so, Mr. Obama will join a long | Read More »

The NYT reports this morning that Barack Obama, like many presidents before him, is now seeking line-item veto authority. President Obama, in his latest effort to signal fiscal responsibility against the rising debt, plans this month to ask Congress to give him and future presidents greater power to try to delete individual items from spending bills. In doing so, Mr. Obama will join a long | Read More »

So said Gene Kranz, NASA’s Mission Control lead flight director for Apollo 13. And so we are faced with a similar situation – a seemingly impossible task, but this time rather than saving the lives of astronauts, we are faced with stopping the drumbeat of socialism from the Left – our task is saving an entire country. The Democrats must not be allowed to succeed | Read More »